The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-10-02
Dramatic.

Dramatic.
Mary \. Davenport is member o.
Milton MOBILES company this season
Robson-Crane is the greatest
comedian in America. Crane-Ex
eept Robson.
WKate ClaIton has secured the right
to play MARY Warner" She will
produce il in Buffalo.
Mrs. Langtry intends making "As
in Looking Glass" her piece do re-
ristaneO during the present season.
Louis james and Marie VAIN.
right prodseed "yirginius" with fine
effect in New York few nights
since.
At the Star Theater, New York,
jefferson is going 10 appear in THE
Rivals" with Mrs. Drew. The
sceneries aud costumes are to be on.
tirely new.
Now that Sarah Bernhardt has
written q play and called il THE
Pin, we eau expect a surieit OF pun.
ming paragraphs, and more or less
humorous comments upon the fact.
Mr.. Wright Huntington has been
specially engaged by Manager A. NJ.
Palmer to play the leading business
in Que Of the Jim the PenmAn"
companies
Oliver Doud Byron has purchAsedA
new drama, entitled The Soggarth,"
b. George Darrell. and has copy.
rtshted ig for the United States. Mr.
ByrOa will produce the play this sea.
son.
Aunie Ward Tiffany, the leading
lady u the Shadows OF Great
City company, has invested heavily
machine, and expects TO become
millionaire from the profits.
ELittle Stella Kenny, the ichild
actress. who played in James Car
don's Two Roads company at the
Windsor Theater last week, played
two parts so cleverly that the audi.
ence were not aware OF the doubling
up.
X. b. MAntells new play, Mon.
bars, by Louis Nathal, was produced
for the first time last week at the
Academy Of Music, Reading, Pa. IL
was handsomely staged, we'll played
by q good company, aud was pro-
nouncod success.
One morning, at rehearsal, Osmond
Tearle made the blunder Of lifting
his coat tails AZ he "a down 10 max
love 70 q young lady in her drawing.
room. That won't do, Mr.. Tearlo,' -
exclaimed Lester Wallack. who was
In an orchestra chair, witnessing the
rehearsal, that won't do at all. A
gentleman's wardrobe should be sui
hcicntly large TO permit his rumpling
A. many coat-tails a day As he
pleases. "
THE American Claimant" proved
a failure At the Lycoum, New York
The production, with this thread.
bare material, is not a play. IL has
no plot, little dialogue, and no &C
lion. IL Is nothing but a monologue
la three parts With a few changes
here and there, THE American
Claimant" may do for country town
lyccuus, but Il will never do for city
theators.
A Londos correspondent writes Of
Mary Anderson As follows. "A
Winners Tale" is By no means a
good acting play and Il Is difficult TO
conceive why Miss Anderson should
have selected this ~ part Of her
repertoire, aud, more particularly,
Why she should have decided on
doubling the parts Of Hcrmionc aud
Pcrdita, which has never been done
before. OF the two characters, un.
doubleday Miss Mary Anderson was
best in that Of Pcrdita.
The authors Of Tho Great Pink
Pearl have managed to utilize q
familiar idea in such q manner that
the play Is not suggestive Of anything
else in particular, and serves a. 4
pleasing incentive TO merriment
THE Great Pink Pearl" unlike
some other works Of the same order
does not cause the auditors 10 give
way 10 occasional paroXysms OF mirth
but IL Is consistently amusint
throughout. The slender plot hu
Tor IT, foundation a case Of mistaken
identity,
80 they say the Vandcrbilts ar,
goine TO buy out the house on Mr.
Brown Pottcrs Gfst night, ch2
quericd Mr Miner, of the Peoples
swell, we'll They know NOR,
about Il than | do An I know Il
this. Mrs Brown Potter is gettinl
up the finest dresses you ever saw
she calls them 'irocks and she hal
received pile of money 10 get then
up, but don't think that | rely OF
dresses. ] don't Mrs. Brown Pot
Ger Is an artist Look az thcs,
photographs Of Mrs. Potter. Ism
she pretty orcaturoY
t-Tho news comes by cable the
Francisquo Sarcoy, the most celo
bfaicd Of the dramatic critics o.
Paris. has written play. la the
course OF life OF some fifty ode
years the short, fat, near sighted
Sarcey, Of the Temps, has done d
great variety Of things. lie hai
taught school, lie has lociurod. II,
has written a novel. lie has struck
Of political leaders and play house
criticisms. lie has fought a duel.